Two days ago Ed called from work to have me look at our adoption agency’s blog. This is what we found (I’ll explain below….)
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Now let me educate you: if you click on the “adoption calendar” tab to your left you will notice that our “DTE” {Dossier To Ethiopia} was 12/17/10. That is the start of our long wait for our referral according to our adoption agency. That date marks the time in which Ethiopia accepted our application and that date is the time marker we constantly refere back to in order to calculate how long we’ve been waiting for our child. The current average wait time – from DTE to referral is somewhere in the range of 18-24 months. So far, we’ve always approached the longest estimated wait time only to have our agency contact us and tell us the time time period has once again been exented and they’re expecting our wait to be a much longer one. However, you’ll notice that last month 10 INFANTS WERE REFFERED TO FAMILIES!!! YAY!!! AND…. ONE of those families happens to have a DTE time of 12/10/10 – just ONE WEEK before ours. This is the first time I’ve seen a December 2010 DTE on the monthly referral update, and the first time I tasted the tiniest tip of the ice berg of what it might be like for our adoption agency to give us a call and tell us they have a child waiting for us in Ethiopia.
12/10/10 – oh how I love you. I could stare at that date all day. I do, sometimes, I just keep it up on my computer and think about how close we just might be.
And then I stop because I don’t like crying in front of computers.
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